\item{\code{prevalence}}{An integer based on estimated prevalence of the microorganism in humans. Used internally by \code{\link{as.mo}}, otherwise quite meaningless. It has a value of 25 for manually added items and a value of 1000 for all unprevalent microorganisms whose genus was somewhere in the top 250 (with another species).}
A data set containing the complete microbial taxonomy of the kingdoms Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoa. MO codes can be looked up using \code{\link{as.mo}}.
This package contains the \strong{complete microbial taxonomic data} (with all seven taxonomic ranks - from subkingdom to subspecies) from the publicly available Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, \url{https://www.itis.gov}).
All (sub)species from the \strong{taxonomic kingdoms Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoa are included in this package}, as well as all previously accepted names known to ITIS. Furthermore, the responsible authors and year of publication are available. This \strong{allows users to use authoritative taxonomic information} for their data analysis on any microorganism, not only human pathogens. It also helps to \strong{quickly determine the Gram stain of bacteria}, since all bacteria are classified into subkingdom Negibacteria or Posibacteria.